URTICACEAE. — DEBREGEASIA 9193 
DEBREGEASIA Gaudich. 
Debregeasia longifolia Weddell in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 
1, 235^ (1869). — Brandis, Forest Fl. Brit. Ind. 405 (1874).— 
Koorders, Exkursionsfl. Java, II. 149 (1912). — Rehder in Bailey, 
Stand. Cycl. Hort. II. 973 (1914). 
Urtica longifolia Burmann, Fl. Ind. 197 (sphalm. 297) (1768). 
Urtica muricata Heyne in Wallich, Cat. No. 4612* ® d (nomen nudum) 
(1828), fide Weddell. 
Urtica angustata Blume, Bijdr. 499 (1825), fide Weddell. 
Debregeasia velutina Gaudichaud, Voy. Bonite Atl. t. 90 (1844-9?) et Expl. 
Descr. Planch. par Ch. d'Alleizette 158 (1866). — Weddell in Arch. Mus. 
Paris, IX. 460, t. 15* (1856). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 590 (1888). — 
André in Rev. Hort. 1896, 321, fig. 118. — Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XXXIX. 232, 
t. suppl. (1906). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 618 (1906). 
Conocephalus niveus Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Or. VI. t. 1959 (1853). 
Missiessya velutina Weddell in Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 4, I. 195 (1854). 
Morocarpus longifolius Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. 156 (1855). — Bed- 
dome, Fl. Sylv. S. Ind. II. Forest Man. Bot. p. ecxxvi. t. 26, fig. 5 (1874). — 
Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, II. 428 (1877). 
Morocarpus velutinus Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. 156 (1855). 
Debregeasia edulis Wright in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 492 (non Weddell) 
(1894), quoad plantas ex Hupeh et Yunnan. — E. Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. 
XXIX. 305 (1900). 
Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, alt. 700-1100 m., 
June 1907 (No. 21; bush 0.9-1.8 m. tall, much branched, fruits orange- 
red, edible); same locality, May 1907 (No. 21*; g). Yunnan: 
Mengtsze, forests, alt. 1800 m., A. Henry (Nos. 10536, 10536^; tree 
3 m. tall); same locality, mountain forests to southeast, alt. 1600 m., 
A. Henry (No. 10702; shrub 2.1 m. tall); Szemao, forests, alt. 1300 
m., A. Henry (No. 12387; tree 3.0 m. tall, flowers white); same 
locality, mountains to east, alt. 2400 m., A. Henry (No. 12387*; 
tree 6 m. tall). 
m Assam: “Kohima, 4500 ft." March 1896, King’s Collector (No. 
Wilson's plant, which has been in cultivation in the Arnold Arboretum, is some- 
what intermediate between D. longifolia and D. edulis Weddell, of which the syn- 
onyms are given below. It is the same as Henry’s 10536, of which the leaves are 
also rather or quite smooth on the upper side, while the pubescence of the young 
branchlets and petioles is not so hirsute and spreading as in the typical form and 
Dot 80 short and appressed as in the true D. edulis. I am not quite sure if it is 
Possible to distinguish a distinct variety intermediate between the typical longi- 
folia and what is now called D. edulis from Japan and probably eastern China. 
The other numbers of Henry's from Yunnan agree well with the Indian forms. 
They have a spreading villous or hirsute pubescence on the branchlets and petioles 
the upper side of the leaves is more or less scabrid-hairy. It needs further 
